New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-02
MEN WHO MAKE THEIR WAY
HOW SOME SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE LOOK AND
TALK.

HOW SOME SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE LOOK AND
TALK.
modest little man, who may bs about the
Brevoort House In the evenings, Is NJ IL Levin, who
carries his small stature with much dignity - II
he were six-footer. Mr. Levin V Q tobacco mer-
chant whose wealth Is estimated we'll up in the mill
Ions. Re lives In Of the houses adtacent 70 tho
Brevoort House but spends his summers at Saratoga
He has Just como from there In renewed health
When tho Marine Bank Building. corner OF VAL ana
Pearl sts, was sold out by forced sale after the fall
ore OF that institution, II Mr.. Levin who bought
1t and paid for it In cold cash Just a. he would Tor
postage stamp, and apparently with no moro enor''
General Easement, who was Of the heavy con-
tractors for the construction of the Northern Pachc
Railroad, has been floating around New-fork Tor sew
eral days He bears remarkable resemblance Id
size and facial expression to General Grant At the
present time he Is engaged in constructing raIrosd
around Lake Chautauqus, . railroad In Pennsylvania,
o railroad In Iowa and bridge over the Ohio luver
He Is the pioneer In utilizing natural gas for mousse
hold purposes. His house at Painesvillc, Ohio, near
Cleveland. has been supplied with natural gas tor
moro than twenty years.
A man whose name will be inseparaby connccted
with tho Of real reconstruction In the south, os
which the country has como to hear oil the New
South. Is II. I. Kimba who is at present connected
with tho Equitable ufe Assurance Society In re-
sponsible position. Mr.. Kmbsll L. . stalwart Inc
looking man of perhaps ffiy-ve years Of age, win
tho face Of nnancer, keen eye and quiet man
ner. He was Northern man, but drifted into Al
lanta some time after tho war and thought he saw
there the possibilities Of tho great Developments tha'
has since been realized. IL largely TO his sug-
gestions and to his plans that the growth OF that
city into tho business metropolis Of the South was
due. He planned and promoted improvements OF
ffnna
railroad companies, encouraged manufactures ana
built the wcil-known Kmball House, which is one OF
the finest hotels In the country outside Of New-forH.
He was not destined to reap much Of the rcwaru oi
his great energy, but Atlanta will always owe him a
debt which cannot be paid In money.
There are several men we'll known to the public
who Will share largely in the good fortune that sees
likely to reward the promoters Of the dynamite gn'
now that has been subjected to SUCCESSFUL JESUS
Among these General E. A. Merritt, formerly 'oi-
lcctor Of this port and ConsuGencral I'm London anu
ex-Colector Rodney W. Daniels, OF Buffalo. qulc'
little man who has had u great deal to DO WIN INC
fnancierng OF the affairs Of the company ana WHO
will come In for a large share Of Its profits Is H. ~
Wlnsor. who came back to New-York, as his native
place, about ten years ago. He had been III INC
book business In st. Louis His first experience III
explosives with what is known a. the Lay 'o'-
pcdo, and 1t while engaged In the manasehehO
Of tia, invention that ho became I'M
pressed with tho value Of the dynamite
Gun. Us has probably had as much as
any other ono To do with the successii coinpio
ton OF the enterprise under great difficulties
T. A. Munsey tho Editor Of The Golden Argosy,
Ia a young man of Maine, who came 10 Ncw-ioiA
six or eight years ago full OF ambition Tor hVHIA'
career but wisely weighted with the belief thaI ho
great success could attained In New-ioik without
IaItn IIs
cessh,I publIshing business, and who attending 10
all the detail, has found time wrlte several stories
for children, which have appeared In inc H ,qS
Arrosyg and some OF which now 10 be puDhsn"i
In book form by Cassel Il Go. Mr.. hunsey Is not
above thirty years OF age at the prescht uir' ~
athletic. rswboned Ncw-Englander, with a Long
smo,tb-.hayen face high cheek bones and full lore
head.
Walter +. See ofNew-York, who has been abroad
buying fine marbles, says that when he was In Lon
don len DAYS ago on his way home, the sporting men
were Offering bets of 8 to and 10 to ON tho
Thistle over the Volunteer. lie saw huhoer VI
bets made on this basis. In talking about maittes
he said tbet there great demand In this country
for the black marble of Belgium, which Is The Lines.
and clcarest Of it, type Ia tho world The OeSt
h,sck marble in this country 10 far developed Is
IA be- found near Glcns Falls In this state Ih,rc
are deposits Of black marble IN the Rocky Mountains
but rs yet they have not been brought INTO inc mo-
Net or developed. with tie accumulation Oh "oAA'h
In ,h, country builders arc sending gu, al, over ne
world Or rarr woods and stones Az siai We, -
France, thccs is cathedral In the couf.o ol , vc.
sruc0n s work on When ,S ha' continue Te for thirty
Year. more. speaking irom the point Vi VIC" VI
such ls2s e and sA Eaass I Building This city Mr.
SEQ said that he thought any iMr cn,au ' ''
tractor would undertake 70 lpashervane IN eeh
teen months.
Ono afternoon recently met roaming around In
Rear A.
,a one Of the wealthy retired officers OF the Caed
sta,es Navy whose home Is ia Providence. Tic Is
stout old gentleman, with horid faoc' fuii "h''o
heard close cropped but struggling ana great o'o'
hanging eyebrows. lie looks, Indeed Vpca an
c,ent mariner. Admiral Case ana ochcrai "IA"'
zero friends TO the extent Of being crones, ana oc1
oot topetber for a day evening to enjoy caeh
otbers society. Tho Admiral was an ola new
vorrer and knew much OF New-York society forty
ga env wears ago. lie knew Captain Black tho TO
,Jrad East India officer and stephen whitney, VINO
had little grogshop from which no started INTO inc
grocery business and founded large fortune, ana
o,bcrs of tlat old day II delightful To listen 70
Admiral Cssc NJ he pointed out on the map whefc
~ and hills OF East New York had been loca cd In his
Gay which have since been removed 10 build out me
river front in the Fast River and TO make place ior
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and other structures. You can
hardly @aps laid a ho .ce hq% %%S and they
tell mo It Ia growing and growing all inc "he'
II 40 happened that short time after separating
from Admiral Case / met at an uptown hotel Cap
tain T. W. Collier OF New Mexico, who has been Eli
tor OF Tho Santa Fc New Mexican" for NUMBER
~ years but sold his Interest In that paper recently
and IA now visiting In NcwYork, where he may re-
main permanently. Captain Collier has travelled
widely through the Wes making observations which
resulted In his saying: "You hear great deal of
talk through the press and otherwise about the wonder
full growth Of cities like Denver, Omaha, Kansas CITY
ham laaAp In NJ Xnl
hoc, ~, and down on the elevated railroads and
NJ the strcct-car lines and have been Simply amazed
at tho wonderful amount Of building that Is going on
Tho building In all the cities have named and all
the cities OF tho West combined Is literally nothing
thing about 1t Is that nothing Is said about Il. II